"When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When..." - Quote by A P J Abdul Kalam

“Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.”

“Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.”

“In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.”

“As a leader, you have to take responsibility for your own failures as well as successes. That's the only way you'll learn.If you keep learning, you'll improve.If you improve, your leadership will get better.And in time, you will earn the right to lead on the level you deserve.”

“If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.”

“When we know better, we do better.”

“A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.”

“I always say: Don't die with your music still inside you. Listen to your intuitive inner voice and find what passion stirs your soul. When you do this, you're also tapping into one of the face of intention: love. If you're doing what you love and loving what you do - whatever it is - you make a living at it!”

“I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made. Almost no new classics resemble other previous classics. At first people see only the awkwardness. Then they are not so perceptible. When they show so very awkwardly people think these awkwardnesses are the style and many copy them. This is regrettable.”